Lost Canyons of the Green River - The Story Before Flaming Gorge Dam

Informationen zum Autor Roy Webb is the multimedia archivist for Special Collections at the J. Willard Marriott Library at The University of Utah. He has been running rivers since 1976 and has written scores of publications on river history, including If We Had a Boat: Green River Explorers, Adventurers, and Runners (The University of Utah Press, 1997) Klappentext After more than 50 years of plans to dam the Green River, it finally happened in 1963 as part of the Colorado River Storage Project. Today many people enjoy boating and fishing on the resultant Flaming Gorge reservoir, but few know about what lies under the water. Roy Webb takes the reader back in time to discover what lay along this section of the Green River before the Flaming Gorge Dam was built, and provides a historical account of this rather neglected section of the Colorado River system. Zusammenfassung Takes the reader on a journey back in time to discover the Green River as it once was

Product details

• Authors: Roy Webb, Roy D. Webb
• Publisher: The University of Utah Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.03.2012
• EAN: 9781607811794
• ISBN: 978-1-60781-179-4
• No. of pages: 184
• Subjects: Guides > Sport > Water sport, sailing; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous